grow vs perish

grow

verb
  • To appear or sprout. 

  • To become larger, to increase in magnitude. 

  • To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere) 

  • To develop, to mature. 

  • To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants. 

  • To assume a condition or quality over time. 

perish

verb
  • To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing. 

  • To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose 

  • To die; to cease to live. 

How often have the words grow and perish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )